So, we're on campus and the dining halls use canned shrimp. We can get a fairly large amount per day. My question is if this is safe to feed to fish? Currently have a small bichir, so I'd chop up shrimp for him. Also have a few bluegills and green sunfish from a lake. Any opinions?
Canned Shrimp- Yum or Bleah?
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well you can feed them almost anything. We can eat cooked food, so can they but its not natural. however it sounds darn cheap! So its up to you! if you have expensive sensitive fish i wouldnt but if you have fish you caught that are nice and hardy it should be fine.
i've tried it (also when i was a college student living on a budget) and i really didn't like it. canned bumblebee salad shrimp. it fell apart very easily in the water and made a mess. the bichir would only go after the easy bigger chunks and i had a lot of clean up to do. a lot of colleges serve pre-packaged sushi, you may want to see if you can find some of that, and feed raw salmon and tuna instead, or the cooked split shrimp. otherwise stick to shrimp pellets as the main diet, and canned shrimp as a treat. i would imagine the sodium content is pretty high in that.
Not recommended. Its usually processed and loaded with other things like salt, preservatives, etc.